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Flight Review: Lancair Launches the Piston Evolution
Development of new high-end aircraft—kitbuilt or production line, your choice—might leave you thinking that everybody has come down with a bad case of Turbine Fever. Why is that? They (turbines)...
Safety is No Accident: Lancair Designs
...the Lancair IVs involved in accidents carried Continental engines, though eight had turbine engines (and the turbine engine was the cause of the accident in three of these cases). Is...
Detail Man
...flew it some, but discovered his needs had changed and sold it to John Cook, a South African expat and Walter turbine importer now living in DeLand, Florida. At last...
Velocity, Increased
...with turbine speed and piston efficiency on a high-performance, single-engine acquisition budget? Most experienced pilots and aircraft owners would say, “Yeah, right.” Or perhaps, “You’re dreaming.” Just as there’s no...
Kerosene Dreams
...the next detent, and the turbine starts sucking and squeezing air. At the next detent, the turbine spins faster, a pump squirts a steady stream of fuel into the combustion...
Constant-Speed Props
...and are in the market for a propeller. Where do you turn? Avia. The company offers a full line of propellers for piston and turbine aircraft with engines ranging from...
Garmin Introduces Engine Monitoring and Autopilot to the G3X Suite
...to six cylinder head temperature (CHT) inputs • Up to six exhaust gas temperature (EGT) inputs • Dual turbine inlet temperature • Carburetor temperature • Dual voltage inputs • Dual...
Garmin Introduces Engine Monitoring and Autopilot to the G3X Suite
...Up to six exhaust gas temperature (EGT) inputs Dual turbine inlet temperature Carburetor temperature Dual voltage inputs Dual current measurements (shunt or Hall effect) Fuel flow (single or differential) Trim...
Lancair Announces Simplified Pricing for Evolution
Lancair International announced today that it is changing the pricing strategy on its Evolution kit aircraft. Because both the turbine and piston aircraft are the same aft of the firewall,...
Ask the DAR
...change. A type change would be from a reciprocating engine to a turbine. If there was an actual type change, a new 8130-6 (airworthiness application) should be sent to the...
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What’s the Future of Homebuilding?
Some builders of Experimental/Amateur-Built aircraft are builders in name only, deferring primary construction of the aircraft to the pros. So concluded the FAA, which is determined to clamp down on those who would flout the 51% rules. What does it mean to regular homebuilders? Those who are building now will be unaffected, but for future builders, the FAAs guidance revisions could be significant.
The Dawn Patrol
When one email gets forwarded far and wide, an airport picnic (featuring a surfeit of fried green tomatoes) ends up attracting a mob. But The Dawn Patrol rises to the challenge.